The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-11-17

with heavy monetary bond given in
case of violation, and a chance beside
for term in the penitentiary, heavy
fine and forfeiture for six years of per-
NIT to do business as druggist.
Yet with all these restrictions
petition has been circulated, signed by
some of our best people, and presented
to the probate judge, protesting against
issuing the permits prescribed by this
law. And these professors claim to be
prohibitionists, some of them going SO
far as to claim that something else can
be used instead of alcohol in any of its
forms, no matter for what it is
wanted.
And yet some of these parties who
talk this way and who have signed
these protests are among those who
use more alcohol than any others in
the city.
For instance, one of the signers is a
photographer. Now, if the law has
not been violated, an explanation
would be in order as to how alcohol has
been procured for Photographic pur-
poses heretofore in this city, where a
permit has not as yet been taken out.
Again, let one of the mothers who
have put their names to this protest
have a member of her family sick of
typho-malarial fever. In nine cases
out of ten, if the physician is gradu-
ate, the first thing to be prescribed, es-
pecially after loss of appetite, will be
1 h1-av, In I'M 10
not a place in the city of Emporia
where drop of this can be legally OBJ
tanned without violating the law and
laying some one liable to heavy fine,
term of imprisonment and other Sc
we're penalties.
Not even a doctor has the right to
prescribe it to save the life of his own
wife or child.
Let this fact come home to every
mother in this city: ''If your child is
dying, and a drop of alcohol will save
her life, she must die, or some one
must, if the law is indicated, serve a
term in the penitentiary for saving her
life"
And yet some of our best people, led
aStray by those who should know bet
ter, have, without due thought, signed
a protest against allowing permits to
be taken out to sell liquor for necessa-
ry purposes. All who have done so
have virtually declared that they pre-
ferred to see their children die rather
than take drop of alcohol, even as a
medicine. We know there are some
fanatical enough to claim they would
prefer death to tasting the accursed
stuff But our experience is that they
have never been duly tested, and, pos
sibly, like the drowning man who
clutches at straws, they would take a
whole barrel of whisky rather than
even come near dying.
The writer of this article is as strict
prohibitionist in practice as any per-
son who has signed these protests, yet
he has no hesitation in claiming that
druggists should take out permits un-
der the Murray law, which provides all
necessary penalties, and then, if they
/ violate the law, it will be time enough
to accuse and punish them.
AS it is now premium is paid them
for violating the law, and it is moral
certainty that no jury could be OBJ
tanned, even in Kansas, that would
find a verdict of guilty for such
violation, especially in case Of sickness,
after an attempt had been made in al
earnestness to live up to its provisions,
which had been thwarted by few en-
thusiasts who knew not what they were
doing.
p. S.-We are pleased to learn that
many of those who have signed the pro-
test spoken Of above. have since taken
their names OF, and that more win do
likewise.
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